Month: September 2017

One of my friends is a crazyass Richmond supporter. He was born in November 1982 and the last time Richmond Football Club won the AFL premiership was September 1980. Today the club has a chance to break the drought when they play Adelaide in the AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket …

Maybe we need more shoes on our feet, Maybe we need more clothes and TVs, Maybe we need more cash and jewellery, or maybe we don’t what we need. – From Soja’s Everything Changes What do we need? Oxygen, water, nutrients. That’s it. And no, we actually don’t need jobs …

You change every second. Every split second. Because every second, every split second you come closer to the end of your life. So if you’re changing every split second you can never actually completely know yourself and know what you want, what makes you happy and what will. BUT, maybe …

There’s a reason people in cities are more stressed than those in the country. Or why people in the city look at you like you’re an asshole if you make eye contact, whereas on the coast they say hello… Negative ions. They’re odourless, tasteless molecules from the air that when inhaled, …

NATURE hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. – from The Philosophy of Epictetus (Fragments) VI You’ve probably seen a few of these before. Yep, you guessed right, it’s a face: Nature and evolution put eyeballs …

BUT WHAT says Socrates?–”One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day. – From The Philosophy of Epictetus CLIII There’s a reason why, when it came time for Socrates to accept his fate–and in turn, his …

If you didn’t give a fuck about losing anything in your life, and were ready for it, it’d be impossible for anything to shake you, make you feel down or grieve its loss. Passions can be dangerous, as a passion can bind someone so closely to something that should it …

The past don’t define you, Even if it creates you. – from Illy – Two Degrees Today, Richmond Football Club play for a spot in their first Aussie Rules AFL Grand Final since 1982. And though the past 35 have been lean and depleted of any team success, it has no …

(The following is from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, and the part is almost in its entirety because a) it kicks ass and b) could be my favourite passage in the book): Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a …

Of Fame. Take a look at the minds of her suitors, their ambitions and their aversions. Furthermore, reflect how speedily in this life the things of today are buried under those of tomorrow , even as one layer of drifting sand is covered by the next. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7:34 …